ARLINGTON – A 20-year-old Arlington man was arrested May 28 after allegedly sneaking into a campsite in camouflage clothing and threatening people with a military-style AR-15 rifle.
He was booked into the Snohomish County Jail on suspicion of four counts of assault.
The incident occurred around 3 a.m. Memorial Day weekend off the Mountain Loop Highway, a police report says.
A witness told a deputy that one of the campers was the man’s wife, and the couple was getting a divorce. One camper said the man had a finger on the trigger while pointing it at her head. Another camper said he feared the man “was going to kill everyone at the campsite with how angry he appeared while pointing the rifle at everyone.” Witnesses also said the man acted as though he was going to shoot himself.
At one point the man pointed the rifle away, and two campers took it from him. Another camper took it apart, walked into the woods and threw the pieces. Most of the ammunition was tossed into a river, the report says.
